Re: need help with dialup mail config
Carel Fellinger wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:43:15PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: ... I checked some docs, and got lost. A book of mine suggests using diald, but that would mean dial on demand. I understand diald needs its own connection files wich seems a waste after finally setting up a working set of pon / poff :) I got wvdial working. It's very manual but I didn't want to mess around to much with the setup. Type wvdialconf for setup and wvdial to dialup. It starts pppd for you for the network setup. Seems to work fine. Eric :-)
Re: need help with dialup mail config
Hello, You can also use pon since the new pppconfig will support dial on demand. The trick is to issue the pon statement following your boot up. That will configure your network to listen for outgoing packets and start the link automatically (like windoz does) and stop it at a preset time you configure. Simply start pppconfig and edit your current account and check the advanced section, add 'demand dialing' and 'idle shutdown time'. I'm using it on two boxes and it seems to work quite painlessly. Or just 'pon' when you need and 'poff' when you're finished. best regards On Friday 16 March 2001 10:32, Eric Richardson wrote: Carel Fellinger wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:43:15PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: ... I checked some docs, and got lost. A book of mine suggests using diald, but that would mean dial on demand. I understand diald needs its own connection files wich seems a waste after finally setting up a working set of pon / poff :) I got wvdial working. It's very manual but I didn't want to mess around to much with the setup. Type wvdialconf for setup and wvdial to dialup. It starts pppd for you for the network setup. Seems to work fine. Eric :-) -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls/TELE: USA-707-442-6579\/A GNU-Debian linux user Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ: 12741145 If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Support freedom!
Re: need help with dialup mail config
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:34:11 -0800 Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, You can also use pon since the new pppconfig will support dial on demand. The trick is to issue the pon statement following your boot up. That will configure your network to listen for outgoing packets and start the link automatically (like windoz does) and stop it at a preset time you configure. Simply start pppconfig and edit your current account and check the advanced section, add 'demand dialing' and 'idle shutdown time'. Does this mean diald is no longer needed? Until I got DSL, I used diald, but I want to keep my system equipped to do dial-on-demand in case something happens to my DSL. thanks -- Andrew
Re: need help with dialup mail config
Pollywog writes: Does this mean diald is no longer needed? Diald has filtering: you can control what kind of packets will bring up the link, what kind keep it up, etc. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: need help with dialup mail config
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:43:15PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: ... I checked some docs, and got lost. A book of mine suggests using diald, but that would mean dial on demand. I understand diald needs its own connection files wich seems a waste after finally setting up a working set of pon / poff :) you can use the info in the files used by pon/poff to set up diald, you even can use the /etc/chatscript/provider file. (sorry, not using it anymore, so I forgot howto precisely, if you really can't get it working try again, you might be lucky and find me having the old config files backup somewere) BTW the incoming mail should be processed by a Delivered-To field. Can fethcmail handle that, or do I need procmail? At the proper place in your fetchmailrc file put: envelope Delivered-to: -- groetjes, carel
Re: need help with dialup mail config
Carel Fellinger writes: you can use the info in the files used by pon/poff to set up diald, you even can use the /etc/chatscript/provider file. You can also run pppconfig, go to 'Advanced', and select 'Demand'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
